Archive for July, 2009

CETIS Informal Horizon Scan - March 2009

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

In March 2009 we conducted an informal Horizon Scan as an internal exercise in identifying areas of work to prioritise in the coming year. A public version is now available.

As the caveat at the start of the document notes, this was not intended to be a thorough or robust process but feel free to comment with any burning issues that you think we missed…

Technology Forecast

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

PriceWaterhouseCoopers started publishing their annual Technology Forecast book as a quarterly journal during 2008 . Previous editions of the PwC Technology Forecast have focussed on the question of IT in support of increasing pressures on “business agility”, pressures also felt in post-compulsory education, whereas the latest edition pays particular attention to the increased significance of semantic web technology in practice. This latter actually seems to do a pretty good job of providing an introduction to some of the concepts and technology choices for the semantic web, at least for an IT professional.